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CVE-2019-5611: FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-19:22.mbuf ≈ Packet Storm
In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r350828, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p10, 11.3-STABLE before r350829, 11.3-RELEASE before 11.3-RELEASE-p3, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p14, a missing check in the function to arrange data in a chain of mbufs could cause data returned not to be contiguous. Extra checks in the IPv6 stack could catch the error condition and trigger a kernel panic, leading to a remote denial of service.
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============================================================================FreeBSD-SA-19:22.mbuf Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: IPv6 remote Denial-of-Service
Category: kernel
Module: net
Announced: 2019-08-20
Credits: Clement Lecigne
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2019-08-10 00:01:25 UTC (stable/12, 12.0-STABLE)
2019-08-20 17:49:33 UTC (releng/12.0, 12.0-RELEASE-p10)
2019-08-10 00:02:45 UTC (stable/11, 11.3-STABLE)
2019-08-20 17:49:33 UTC (releng/11.3, 11.3-RELEASE-p3)
2019-08-20 17:49:33 UTC (releng/11.2, 11.2-RELEASE-p14)
CVE Name: CVE-2019-5611
For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including
descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following
sections, please visit <URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/>.
I. Background
mbufs are a unit of memory management mostly used in the kernel for network
packets and socket buffers. m_pulldown(9) is a function to arrange the data
in a chain of mbufs.
II. Problem Description
Due do a missing check in the code of m_pulldown(9) data returned may not be
contiguous as requested by the caller.
III. Impact
Extra checks in the IPv6 code catch the error condition and trigger a kernel
panic leading to a remote DoS (denial-of-service) attack with certain
Ethernet interfaces. At this point it is unknown if any other than the IPv6
code paths can trigger a similar condition.
IV. Workaround
For the currently known attack vector systems with IPv6 not enabled are not
vulnerable.
On systems with IPv6 active, IPv6 fragmentation may be disabled, or
a firewall can be used to filter out packets with certain or excessive
amounts of extension headers in a first fragment. These rules may be
dependent on the operational needs of each site.
V. Solution
Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or
release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date,
and reboot.
- To update your vulnerable system via a binary patch:
Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64
platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility:
freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install
shutdown -r +10min “Rebooting for security update”
- To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch:
The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable
FreeBSD release branches.
a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the
detached PGP signature using your PGP utility.
fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-19:22/mbuf.patch
fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-19:22/mbuf.patch.asc
gpg --verify mbuf.patch.asc
b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root:
cd /usr/src
patch < /path/to/patch
c) Recompile your kernel as described in
<URL:https://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html> and reboot the
system.
VI. Correction details
The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each
affected branch.
Branch/path Revision
stable/12/ r350828
releng/12.0/ r351259
stable/11/ r350829
releng/11.3/ r351259
releng/11.2/ r351259
To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the
following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a
machine with Subversion installed:
svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base
Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number:
<URL:https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=NNNNNN>
VII. References
<URL:https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id#8787>
<URL:https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-5611>
The latest revision of this advisory is available at
<URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:22.mbuf.asc>
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